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Posted: Feb. 07 2006,21:05 QUOTE
I suceeded in installing DSL on a 256Mb Pen Drive.  :)

But the Bios on the PC wasn't that friendly and refused to boot.

Tried to use fdisk(linux-dsl version) which has always been my friend on other distros but I didn't get anywhere.

sda1 I've reformated to FAT32 on another younger PC, but sda2 has not yielded to anything I've tried so far.

Any tips on how to get fdisk to do it's good work?

:)

Tim
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Posted: Feb. 07 2006,23:47 QUOTE
If you have two partitions, then you must have used the usbzip version? If you rerun the install with usbhdd version then the script will make a single fat partition.
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Posted: Feb. 08 2006,20:37 QUOTE
Tried that but no luck.

When I was attempting the first install I used the HHD option but didn't work, but did for Zip version.  Hence the 2 partiions.

So I tried it again after your post and it fell over just like the first time.

So still got a limited to 50Mb flash drive.  *LOL*

:(

Tim
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,00:33 QUOTE
Quote (timmoore46 @ Feb. 07 2006,21:05)
Any tips on how to get fdisk to do it's good work?

As far as I understood you, you were looking for a way to sanitise that 256MB pendrive back into one partition, and Roberts told you how to do so.

Sure, you now have a 256MB USB-HDD partition with a (in your target system) non useful non bootable DSL. Now you can format it and you have your 256MB clean pendrive you had before.

Or you decide to put that pendrive into good use again and format it as an USB-ZIP that AFAIK requires that 2 partition scheme, but now you have a bootable pendrive.

I really don't understand that, but I suppose it should be done that way for a reason or it wouldn't be done that way. I'll even bet that if you manage to 'merge' both partitions, that pendrive would be unable to boot.
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,01:07 QUOTE
The PC Bios does not support USB boot.  Nor does my laptop.  That was my mistake in not checking first.

So I created a 'good' bootable usd pen with DSL on it but plain old fashioned could not use it!  <doh>

So I'd rather like my 256 Mb back by resetting the first partition from the current 50Mb to use the entire drive.

But the best method as recommended to me, isn't available because it doesn't work.

So any suggestions as to what i could do next are very welcome!

:)

Tim
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